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EU could cut its transport greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25% if every country's cycling rate was the same as Denmark's

Europe could cut its transport greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25% if every population cycled as regularly as the Danes, according to a pioneering study which tracks the environmental impact of cycling down to the extra calories consumed by riders.

If the EU cycling rate was the same as it is in Denmark, where the average person cycles almost 600 miles (965km) each year, then the bloc would attain anything from 12% to 26% of its targeted transport emissions reduction, depending on what forms of transport the cycling replaced, according to the report by the Brussels-based European Cycling Federation (ECF).

This figure is likely to be a significant underestimate as it deliberately excludes the environmental impact of building road infrastructure and parking, or maintaining and disposing of cars.

The ECF is urging politicians to focus less on technologically complex solutions to emissions, such as electric cars, and instead think about the potential for increased cycling, especially given that around a third of motorised journeys within the EU are 1.25 miles or less.

"There's this rhetoric going about that technology is going to save the day. In the end it's going to have to be the political decisions which make the difference in emissions, and it's not just going to be technology," said Julian Ferguson of the ECF, one of the report's authors.

"Things like e-cars will need a massive investment in new infrastructure. But that's almost part of the problem. Politicians like having those massive, awe-inspiring projects, something to change the face of transport. The big advantage of the bicycle is that it exists as a vehicle, it's not just a projected attempt to reduce emissions."

The European commission requested that the ECF carry out the research to provide the first specific figures for emissions produced by bicycles over their lifespan, as against motorised vehicles.

The calculations for bikes included manufacture – the ECF took a heavier, European-style bike as its model, assuming each used 14.6kg of aluminium, 3.7kg of steel and 1.6kg of rubber – maintenance and even the impact of producing extra calories consumed by someone cycling rather than driving, estimated at 175 an hour, on average.

This came up with a total of 21g of carbon emissions per passenger kilometre travelled for a bike, as against 271g for people in a car and 101g for a bus. The impact of electric-assisted bicycles, a boon for older or infirm riders, was almost as low, at 22g. In real life these figures would most likely be biased far more towards cycling, Ferguson said: "We were pretty conservative. We were worried, being a cyclists' federation, that if the figures looked too amazing for a bicycle we wouldn't be taken seriously. So we didn't include infrastructure for cars, or things like parking, maintenance for cars – while maintenance for bikes was included."

Increasing continent-wide cycling to Danish levels would, nonetheless, be quite an enterprise. The EU average is just under 120 miles per person per year, while in the UK it is a mere 46 miles, less than 8% of that in Denmark.

But the ECF says that if the EU is to meet its emissions target, which calls for a drop of between 80% and 90% on 1990 levels by 2050, major changes will be required somewhere, and that transport is a the ideal place to start. From 1990 to 2007, transport-based emissions on the continent rose 36%, while those from other sources fell 15%. It also points to the example of cities such as Seville in Spain, where the construction of segregated bike lanes and other policies saw cycling increase tenfold in just three years.

"It is possible," said Ferguson. "It just takes a bit of political will and a good dose of cultural change."

• Cycle Babble: Bloggers on Biking, the book of the Guardian's bike blog, is available from the Guardian Bookshop for £5.99

• This article was amended on 13 December to make clear that the reductions in emissions relate only to transport emissions, not all emissions

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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/12/cycle-like-danes-cut-emissions

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I got a letter a couple days ago. The subject line kind of caught my eye:
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From the thrill of freewheeling without stabilisers to the dreaded cycling proficiency test, tell us your first-bike memories

We have a Christmas tradition in my house. When morning comes and we are gathered in the living room, someone sits close to the window in order to peek out and count the new bikes being ridden up and down the street. The number fluctuates each year, but the sight of shiny new bikes being taken out for their first spin is, to me, synonymous with Christmas.

This year, as I watched them pass my window, I reminisced about my own first bike. It came after a period of haggling with my parents, and what felt like years of watching my brother zoom ahead of me on his.

In the end, I was given my brother's bike.

It wasn't new. It most certainly wasn't impressive. But it was all mine, and at last I could cycle with all the other kids in my neighbourhood. I remember it being presented to me on what must have been my 8th birthday, and even though I had seen my brother ride the same one a thousand times, it looked brand new to me.

It was a grey boy's mountain bike, the make of which I can't remember, with gears that I never used. My parents had the foresight to remove his various stickers, which I replaced with ones that I'd been saving since the notion of getting a bike occurred to me. I think they were of The Raccoons. I also had little reflective clips that went on my spokes, and my dad attached a white basket at the same time he screwed the stabilisers back on.

While I can't remember the day the stabilisers came off, I do have a very clear memory of my cycling proficiency test, which took place when I was 10. The seriousness of this event was drilled into us from a very early age, and I was filled with dread for the weeks preceding it. I spent many an afternoon practicing my signalling arm, envisioning traffic cones laid out before me.

I both survived and passed the test. After this moment of glory, I began to neglect my bike. The teen years arrived, and it seemed that cycling was no longer cool. My bike sat neglected in the garage. I didn't even notice when it was given away, and it was years before I was back on the saddle.

The artist Naomi McLeod also took a long hiatus from cycling after learning as a child. As an adult she cycles every day, but a few nasty experiences left her with bad memories of her first bike, including a swan bite, a fall into a patch of stinging nettles, and a rather nasty tumble.

"When I was a very small child, my mum used to take me into the park to learn to ride my first bike. On one such occasion, I went too fast down a steep hill. I ended up rolling forward through the air and landing hard on the concrete, knocking out a front tooth. My mum tells me she shoved the tooth back into my bleeding gums (it was hanging on by a thread of flesh) in the hope that it would somehow re-root and grow. It turned black and fell out."

The Guardian journalist and bike blog contributor Peter Walker has fuzzy memories of his first bike, but a clear recollection of the day the stabilisers came off.

"I can't remember a single thing about it except that (in the pre-balance bike style of the times) I began with stabilisers before, one momentous day, my dad removed them. I can recall the thrill of freewheeling down a steep slope on our lawn shortly afterwards. The joy was tempered when, in my excitement, I rode over a treasured plastic bow and arrow set, snapping the bow."

While the memories of my bike are fading, I know a child who remembers everything about his. Eoin Murphy is eight years old, and got his first bike on his fourth birthday. I was there on the day he got it, and remember the huge grin on his face when he saw it for the first time.

"It was a Fireman Sam bike, which was really cool. I'd seen my brother ride his bike, and I was so excited to ride my own. I had stabilisers on for the first 15 minutes. Then I took them off, so I only had them on the first day. My dad said I should take them off because I'm a good rider. Then he took them off and I was a great rider."

Over to you: do you remember your first bike?

• Nicola Brady is a film-maker and writer based in Leitrim, Ireland

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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/jan/24/first-bike-memories

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